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Self love is waking up at 2pm and reading twitter threads about yourself

Contrast of Forms, by Fernand Léger, 1913 (rotated), 📸 by Mike Segar

The new Anthropic commercial is kind of insane

@pokefire44 @LucyTheLamia I know it's been 4 years since I made this but it still makes me happy to see people posting it

@LucyTheLamia Big fan of this one

i genuinely don't know if anything can top this one tbh, it's generational

@esidery The Kiss, by Edvard Munch, 1897

Kid wearing a YouTube t shirt will say to you "Ravioli are just italian gushers." Maybe so, young man. But we haven't the time for that

I’ve heard that MAGNUS CARLSEN was playing blitz match against DANIEL NARODITSKY during his wedding night at 4 AM.. WTH? #chess

genius

"Donkey Kong Arcade illusion" Horizontally aligned arcades appear to tilt alternately.

@GoldFlakePaint This guy has a whole catalog of incrediby technical and soulful songs, but this is the only one that sounds like this youtu.be/fhrlEGJRPqM

hello! would love for you to tell me the one song that smacks you straight in the gut so I can listen to it now and potentially smack myself straight in the gut. thanks :)

@vividvoid Having moved from Portland too, I understand how you feel- I was so frustrated with being unable to belong there. That said, I beseech you to not universalize the values of your newfound tribe. Most people, including progressives, just want things to work, and work for everyone.

Culture war poast about helping progressives deradicalize, you've been warned: Despite having been called a "right-wing leak in the Dharma" and having many deplorable friends on this site, I'm a bog-standard liberal who worked for the ACLU as a young man and voted for Bernie in 2016 and 2020. My sense of the left right now is that the "woke" social authoritarians who recently captured it have already dug their own graves, and are on their way to exile, both politically and socially. Radical eruptions are a cyclical and structural phenomenon; most liberals like me are simply waiting long by the river for their bodies to float by. We are already living to regret the second order effects of identitarian populism; the problem with riding a tiger is that eventually you have to stop, and running makes the tiger hungry. My hope is that the impending loss to Trump, who is a moderate Republican and no more or less fascist than the Democrats currently running things, will chasten the left enough that cooler heads can eventually prevail. Many of the social reforms ushered in by the most recent cultural revolution are here to stay - the ones that don't genuinely threaten social stability - although they will lessen in intensity as Millennials and Zoomers age and become wealthier. Poly and transgenderism are already boring, as is reflexive male deference to feminist norms. They will get a well-deserved shakeup soon, and need to make severe compromises to remain culturally viable, but this will make it so that they eventually become sustainable. I'm actually quite optimistic about the future of American culture. I think technology and massive gains in prosperity will enable creators to punch through the current totalitarian stagnation in art and culture. There is a certain small class of people that has always been able to decouple from their political identities and think freely; these are cultural innovators and, frankly, elites that act as reins on the more radical drivers of intellectual and aesthetic fashion. They are currently on the center right but will return to their natural home on the left once the authoritarians are appropriately tarred and feathered. This will have a global effect on the dialectic; many currently radicalized and justifiably aggrieved white and straight and male people will gladly return to the center if they are reassured and welcomed back. Progressives will also need to deradicalize, more so than anyone else; they have been as horrible and prejudiced as the worst bigots on the right, but at scale, and have written it into our institutions. I don't want to argue about disparate impact, I'm interested in the psychology: You can't practice hate into your bones for a decade and not carry it around with you forever. Progressives have cognitive loops full of fear and hatred for men, heteronormativity, "whiteness", the semiotics of "privilege" and much more that will never fully recede. They're going to have to suppress, process and keep their neuroses in check the rest of their lives. They are going to struggle to raise healthy sons and to have stable relationships. They have repeatedly traumatized themselves with ideology and prejudice for too long to have escaped damage. These are the spiritual wages of hate. But it's not hopeless. I encourage anyone who's read this far to become bolder in lowering the status of authoritarian progressivism in your own social circles. Try to call them in, not out; quiet, friendly conversations are much more effective than social shame. Keep in mind that they are also starting to see the writing on the wall. Make an escape route and a safe place to retreat, conditional on their abandoning illiberal and hateful expression, and they'll be much more open to change. They have a chance at a happy, if compromised, life. The sooner we can get them to stand down, the better for them, for us, for all of our communities. And, I believe, for the entire country.

Me and all the wonderful people in my life right now

Interview of @GMHikaru: Woman; How do you manage everything? Hikaru; I leave it up to my team. I'm hands-off, I trust them to make the right decisions. Fiona; Do you think Hikaru included us in his team? Hammer; Yes, but he should not trust us.

Tomorrow: Hikaru (8) vs. Gukesh (8.5) Caruana (8) vs Nepomniachtchi (8) For the first time in chess history, 4 players can win the Candidates entering the final round. Unreal drama.

"It tells you how much to tip at the bottom. 15% is $5.45, 18% is $6.20, and so on. Usually between 18-20% is considered a good tip."

This is what my matches with Karpov felt like.

I just timed out a publishing house for spamming in Kick chat. I know that it's a bad time for the book industry, but I didn't realize it was this bad.

Differences in perceived speed

@regularcars Think of it like a one panel comic in the newspaper, it's not the red arrow, it's whether or not the whole thing makes sense at a glance. Then shrink the whole thing down

Youtube thumbnail. To the red arrows make a difference?